Tom Casey
Tom Casey
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The United States joins the African Union in condemning the overthrow of the government of Mauritania. And we oppose any attempts by rogue elements to change governments through extraconstitutional or violent means.
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He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.
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Right now, our main focus is on continuing the good work that we've done with the Saudi government and moving forward in our relationship under the new Saudi leadership.
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I am not aware of any specific proposals or any specific ideas that would require or force any kind of delay in Security Council action.
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If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.
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Certainly, the Uzbekistan government owes its citizens and owes the international community a serious, credible and independent investigation of these events. And we are continuing to push for such an investigation with the government of Uzbekistan and with our partners in the international community.
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I can't tell you whether that is going to be in the next two days, next four days, next six days. I don't want to pin it down on specific timing.
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As U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said, the United States has been at the forefront of providing assistance to those in need throughout the world at times of crises or natural disasters,
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The monitors worked on a rotation basis and the Americans did not happen to be on this morning.
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In order to stop (the work) we would have to sue for an injunction and we don't want to bring that heavy of a hand in.
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The main point for us is that the U.S. and Russia have an active and constructive dialogue on a broad agenda of priority issues. Certainly we're cooperating well with them on counterterrorism issues, on proliferation issues ... and on a variety of other areas as well.
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It's a hunting accident, it happens, and he lucked out that the guy didn't get killed. Everyone has had their little laugh about it and played their talk show jokes, but that's it. Drop it.
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You can't have the regime pursuing enrichment on any scale, because pursuing (that) allows them to master the technology, complete the fuel cycle and then that technology can easily be applied to a clandestine program for making nuclear weapons.
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The Chinese have been doing, we think, an outstanding job of trying to move forward on this process.